Posts by Paul Campbell
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I liked this mea culpa from a rock journalist today
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Yes but 3d printing is still just a tool like any other, not even that new a tool it was hampered by patents for years
Cheap printing lets us make stuff like rocket engines cheaper, but it's never likely to make plastic parts more cheaply than injection moulding in volume.
(Rocket labs engines aren't really 'electric' they have electric turbopumps which is really doable because of changes in battery technology rather than fabbing tech)
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here's a timely Salon article .... basically our growing income disparity is a symptom of us not handling technological change well - yes the robots are coming to take away our jobs, and if we can figure out how to spread the resulting wealth, rather than creating a 1% and an underclass they we're all going to be better off - don't we all want a 4 day week?
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One thing that I realised this week is that the TPPA and its ilk is inherently unequal because it provides for the free movement of capital and goods ..... but not labour.
If all the great jobs move to country X because of TPPA but you can't move there and take them it's not a fair treaty
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I remember sitting with a group in the old Gardens Tavern (no idea why might have been the only time I ever went in) mid to late 70s listening to some terrible hair metal band and Chris pipes up with "hell even I can do better than that" ... turns out he could
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"Truth" ... of that truth .... you had me worried there for a minute, thought you'd taken one of Slater's hand-me-downs
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